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Ward No. 6 · The Lady with the Dog · The Bishop · The Betrothed

Anton Chekhov

Ward No. 6 · The Lady with the Dog · The Bishop · The Betrothed

Paper book: €16.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1903
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
305
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Psychology, Romance, Philosophy
Moods
Be moved to tears, Think it through, Understand myself
Translated from
Russian

Book summary

This collection brings together four of Chekhov's finest stories. In “Ward No. 6”, a provincial doctor starts talking with a patient in his asylum and ends up wondering who is really mad. In “The Lady with the Dog”, a man and a woman, each married to someone else, meet in Yalta and fall into a love they had not foreseen.

We also meet a bishop, alone and ill on the eve of Easter, and a young bride-to-be who decides to leave everything behind. Chekhov never judges: in a few pages, he makes you feel a whole life.

You can read each of these stories in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

一位女士和她的小白狗。在黑海边的雅尔塔,一位金发的年轻女子每天带着一只小白狗散步。没有人知道她的名字,人们称她为“带小狗的女人”。古罗夫是一位从莫斯科来的已婚男子,很想和她说话。

The world of the book

1900年前后的俄国。这四篇小说带我们走进外省的小城,那里人人相识,日子都差不多。我们看到那里的医院、教堂和盛大的复活节。我们也看到了雅尔塔,一座黑海边的城市,莫斯科的富裕人家来这里休养。

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